Incorporating Social Media in your Practice

Nell Eckersley

Introductions What do you know about Social Media?

What would you like to learn?

What one thing would you like to take away from this session?

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Agenda What is Social Media and why should we use

it? Bitly QR Codes Pinterest Twitter Go2web20 Top 100 Tools for Learning list

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What is Social Media Social media includes web-based and mobile

based technologies which are used to turn communication into interactive dialogue among organizations, communities, and individuals.

--Wikipedia

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Components of Social Media

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Web 2.0

Components of Social Media Cloud Computing

performing computer tasks using services delivered entirely over the Internet.

movement away from applications installed on an individual's computer towards the applications being hosted online.

The "cloud" refers to the Internet and was inspired by technical flow charts and diagrams, which tend to use a cloud symbol to represent the Internet.

http://mobileoffice.about.com/od/workingontheroad/f/cloudcomputing.htm

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Components of Social Media Mobile Learning

The use of common handheld hardware, wireless networking and mobile telephony to facilitate, support, enhance and extend the reach of teaching and learning.

https://mobilelearninginfokit.pbworks.com/w/page/41751137/What%20is%20mobile%20learning

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Tagging

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Why use Social Media in Adult Ed?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyZRS0BnpAI&feature=youtu.be

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Why Social Media?

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Makes tasks authentic & challenging

Extends time devoted project

Supports collaborative work

Inexpensive, multiplatform

Real life experience Help break down the

digital divide

Myths about Social Media

Only young people use Social Media

Social Media; just a waste of time

Fears about security & privacy

Hierarchy of needs; technology comes after literacy

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Integrating Social Media into Adult Ed

Blooms Taxonomy Creating Evaluating Analyzing Applying Understanding Remembering

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Blooms Digital Taxonomy Pyramid

13 http://www.usi.edu/distance/bdt.htm

5 Moments of Learning Dr. Conrad Gottfredson’s Five Moments

of Learning Needs: When Learning for the First Time When Wanting to Learn More When Trying to Remember When Things Change When Something Goes Wrong

http://www.upsidelearning.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/17/the-practice-of-mobile-learning/

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What Do You Know?

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Bitly

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https://bitly.com/

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You can use Bitly to shorten URL’s without creating an account

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Customizing Your Shortened URL

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Analytics

With an account you can also track how many times the URL you created has been clicked.

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QR Code

And with or without an account you can make any of the shortened URLS into a QR Code by adding .qr at the end

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QR Codes

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QR Codes Quick Response Code Can be scanned using apps on a smart phone,

an iPad, and even a desk top computer with a camera and generated using Bitly but others too http://www.scanlife.com/en/ Scanlife http://qrcode.kaywa.com/ Kaywa

QR codes contain information and directions Most are used to take you to a website, but can

also contain other information and directions Great way to share content in mobile way

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QR Infographic http://bit.ly/elKi2c

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QR Codes: Applications in Education (Video) http://bit.ly/LCszKx

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Pinterest

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https://pinterest.com

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Boards and Pins

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http://pinterest.com/nelightful/adult-education-ideas/

Twitter

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https://twitter.com/

What Can You Say in 140 Characters?

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Retweeting

RT @Username

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HashTags

#EdTech #AdultEd#TwEd

#EdChat #TechPD #SoMeEd

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Anatomy of a Good Tweet

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Shortened URLS

http://ipadeducators.ning.com/profiles/blogs/preparing-your-school-for-an (73 characters)

Bit.ly/3FjhpX (13 characters)

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http://tweetchat.com/

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37https://support.twitter.com/articles/64986-how-to-report-spam-on-twitter#

Where to find more tools Go2Web20 Top 100 Tools for Learning Paper.Li

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Go2Web20

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http://www.go2web20.net/

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http://www.go2web20.net/#tag:e-learning+tag:student

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http://twiducate.com/

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Top 100 Tools for Learning

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http://c4lpt.co.uk/

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http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-learning-2011/

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http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-tools/top-100-tools/top-tools-twitter/

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http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-for-learning-2011/voting-2012/

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http://paper.li/LACNYCnell/1320940472

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Advanced What Do You Know?

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My contact info Moderator, NIFL Technology and Literacy

Discussion List http://www.nifl.gov/mailman/listinfo/Technology

Email:  nelle@lacnyc.org Twitter:  http://twitter.com/LACNYCnell  Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/nell.eckersleylac Blog: http://nelightful.wordpress.com/ Delicious:

http://www.delicious.com/nelleckersley